Italian police have charged two young men, ages 18 and 21, with participation in the sexual attacks that occurred New Year's Eve in Milan.
The below article from today's Corriere della Sera is translated by Fousesquawk.
New Year's Eve in Milan, the 18-year-old arrested for violence: "I saw the girls surrounded, but I didn't touch them"
By Editorial Staff, Milan
The young man responded to the questions of gip (preliminary investigation judge) from the San Vittore jail: "I didn't touch the girls. Then I got scared and left". The Egyptian father, in Milan for two years, lives in the Comasina zone.
"I saw that they surrounded these girls, but I didn't participate." He defended himself. He said he "did nothing", that he didn't "touch" the girls, that he saw the people crowded together, and then he ran. That he only watched. A spectator, not a molester: "I am a good person, I have always worked." Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim, the 18-year-old arrested in the evening at Milan for the attack case in Duomo Square on New Year's Eve, together with the 21-year-old Abdallah Bouguedra, resident of Turin, was interrogated by remote (with the help of an interpreter) by the preliminary investigating judge, Raffaella Mascarino. The young worker, second-generation Italian, father Egyptian, (resident) in Milan for two years in via Bovio (street) in Comasina, is locked up in the San Vittore jail. His lawyer, Iacopo Viola, has requested house arrest. The judge must decide on the request for approval of pre-trial custody in jail requested by the prosecutor.
Interrogation at San Vittore
Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim reconstructed, step by step, the entire sequence of attacks but said that he did not participate in any type of violence. "I was there, I saw it, but I wasn't involved." The 18-year-old, heard by the preliminary investigating judge in a hearing to validate the arrest and assisted by attorney Jacopo Viola, told of having met friends at the Duomo and having observed the entire scene from afar. "I had just arrived and I met with some people I knew," he said. After a short time, the 18-year-old's friends reportedly "surrounded the girls," The "mess" reportedly "happened from 12:30 on". The boy confirmed having seen, "the girl dressed in red," while she was trying to defend herself, and "spit in the face of someone,". After the attacks, the 18-year-old said he was "scared" and went off to take the Metro.
The lawyer
"He responded and had a cooperative attitude with the judge," attorney Viola said at the end of the interrogation. "It is a delicate situation that involves one (who is) barely an adult. I can say that he admitted being in the square, but denied the accusations. I have requested house arrest." The judge has reserved the decision on accepting the measure from the Milan Prosecutors Office and to apply pre-trial detention in jail.
The father: "Three months ago, he lost his brother"
"My son is a good boy, a worker who recently lost his brother," Ahmed, the father of the boy, told reporters in front of the building on the periphery (of Milan) where he lives with Abdelrahman. "My son has suffered, only 3 months ago, he lost a brother." He works with plasterboard and has a clean record. That evening, he went out to have fun with friends, I am sure he is innocent, and that everything will be cleared up," he added.
The 21-year-old "from Turin"
As for Abdallah Bouguedra, the 21-year-old arrested in Turin, in the arrest decree issued by the Milan prosecutor, it reads, "he demonstrated a clear and conscious adherence to the criminal actions of the group of men who attacked the two 19-year-olds at McDonald's, "unequivocally inserting himself as an active participant in the sexually violent conduct of the group." "The brutally of the conduct of Abdallah B. shows the marked dangerousness of the subject, who, if freed, could commit other crimes of the same nature, also exploiting the force of intimidation of the violent group of which he is a part." For the asst prosecutor, Letizia Mannella and the prosecutor, Alessia Mengazzo, "the same considerations must be made in reference to the conduct carried out by Abdelrahman Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim." The latter is also under investigation for his alleged participation in the sexual attack on a group of 4 friends from Tuscany, aged 18-19, at the entrance to the Vittorio Emanuele II Galleria.
Parents defend him
The parents of Abdallah Bouguedra also defend him. "Our son is a good boy, he didn't do anything." "Leave us in peace or we will call the Carabinieri," they add responding to the call box of their residence, an apartment in the housing areas of the northern periphery of Turin. In the home of the young man, a second-generation Italian of North African origin, the investigators from the Milan police, with the help of colleagues from the Turin police hqs, found the clothes the young man was wearing on New Year's Eve.
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